Giles ,'Touched'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
A friend made me a Streets CD and I just couldn't get into it. Lyrically it was pretty good but I just wasn't feeling the songs or the vocal delivery. Not my thang.
ION, Sebadoh on Thursday! It's been a looooong time. (Long enough that I've managed to forget about the travesty that was Harmacy.)
One of the book contributors, Mike Applestein, has an online blog and did the zine Caught in Flux. Here's a cool issue of CiF, where people relate how they discovered music. My co-editor Kim Cooper, relates a particularly saucy tale of 70s debauchery. Most of these stories would probably sound familiar to music fans here. Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields) has a cool rememberance about discovering music through her childhood friendship with Stephin Merritt.
I'm going to go see Elvis the C in a few weeks for the first time. He's usually kind of expensive, and I'm not so crazy about anything he's done since, say, Blood & Chocolate (and I have diminishing returns on anything after Imperial Bedroom, actually), so I've just never forked out to see the guy. But he's playing the Austin City Limits Fest, and we have tickets, so I figure I'll check him out.
I have an unusual talent for missing EC. Seriously, one year he was playing London the day after I went back to America, and LA the day after I went back to England.
On the other hand, while I dislike a lot of his recent stuff, I have a fondness for the recent "When I Was Cruel." It was a pretty damn solid album.
Said his favorite parody (and he thinks it deserves to be parodied) is "Hairway to Steven". I must hear it! Seems to be a Butthole Surfers song, & no mp3 turned up in my not-too-comprehensive search. Anyone know/have it?
Hairway to Steven was the title of a BS LP, not a song. As Hayden said, the song titles were all symbols. Nothing on the album is a StH parody -- it's just the title.
Now playing: Moby's cover of "That's When I Reach for My Revolver." I'm surprised at how faithful it is.
Here's a cool issue of CiF, where people relate how they discovered music.
Heh. One of my old friends from high school era is another contributer to that issue, Dave McGurgan. I haven't read his entry yet.
Nostalgia Flakes
Whoa. Just read the McGurgan entry and it's all about our wee Wilmington, DE mid-80s scene. The world she is tiny.
On the other hand, while I dislike a lot of his recent stuff, I have a fondness for the recent "When I Was Cruel." It was a pretty damn solid album.
I thought so when it came out, but the charm has kinda worn off. I have listened to it fewer times than Goodbye Cruel World in the last year.
Hairway to Steven was the title of a BS LP, not a song. As Hayden said, the song titles were all symbols. Nothing on the album is a StH parody -- it's just the title.
I was trying to remember if they actually parodied the song on that album. It's probably been ten or more years since I've listened to it, and I think I was high every time that I did so.
Now playing: Moby's cover of "That's When I Reach for My Revolver."
IIRC, the Conleys earned a vacation to the Bahamas thanks to the royalties from that cover. Go Moby!
Wondering if anyone can help with a musical question. I have a couple of friends who are getting married shortly, and they want Moon River as part of the wedding music. They're convinced they heard a version by Andy Williams that (this is the tricky bit) didn't include a female chorus in the middle. That's the version they want.
Does this ring any bells for anyone, and if so, do you happen to know where they might find this track?